From: Cedric Le Goater <clg-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
<sukadev-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
Containers
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][LXC] Rename --directory option to --statefile
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:11:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B856BC8.5060000@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100224181150.GA3276-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
>>> This has some major impact on our side as it is a 9 year old API ...
>>> We'll look into it to see how painful it is to change.
>
> Ah, did not realize it caused that much pain.
bah. we should change anyway.
>> We can keep --directory and add --statefile.
>> For --statefile option we can use a switch for IS_DIR, IS_REG.
>>
>> --directory becomes deprecated and we switch to the statefile option
>> step by step.
>>
>> Does it make sense ?
>
> Yes, I think it will work.
>
> BTW, what was the rationale for a directory ? Is it meant to be used
> with predefined file names in the specified directory ?
the mcr statefile use to be a directory, organized in such a way it was
easy to analyze its contents and easy to restart concurrently tasks
and shared states. it's still a directory but it's shrinking to be a
file and even a stream.
your request makes sense for the long term so we should take it.
c.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-24 8:41 [PATCH 1/2][LXC] Rename --directory option to --statefile Sukadev Bhattiprolu
[not found] ` <20100224084108.GG18758-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-24 8:41 ` [PATCH 2/2][LXC] Have lxc_restart call app_restart() Sukadev Bhattiprolu
[not found] ` <20100224084156.GH18758-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-24 8:45 ` Cedric Le Goater
2010-02-24 8:49 ` [PATCH 1/2][LXC] Rename --directory option to --statefile Cedric Le Goater
[not found] ` <4B84E80A.7060208-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-24 8:54 ` Daniel Lezcano
[not found] ` <4B84E94E.3000406-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-24 18:11 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
[not found] ` <20100224181150.GA3276-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-24 18:11 ` Cedric Le Goater [this message]
[not found] ` <4B856BC8.5060000-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-24 18:30 ` Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20100224183024.GA22624-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-24 18:39 ` Cedric Le Goater
[not found] ` <4B85725C.3010002-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-24 18:45 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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